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Thankfully all this stuff has been or is being killed by ebikes and escooters which are vastly better technology.

I hate to say it but good riddance! OK to keep as a classic icon for everything on the road but definitely not something that I would want to continue being popular.

Keep the body shell, modernize the internals. I think they have already done so...

There has been an electric vespa for quita a while: https://storeusa.vespa.com/elettrica/vespa-elettrica-45-mph....

At least in italy there's also a cheaper, not Vespa looking, ev piaggio, the piaggio one

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